Primary Mental Health Team Lead

Job summary

To contribute to the development of provision of child and adolescent mental health services across the boroughs of Northumberland, including the development and provision of Mental Health Support Teams.

To increase the awareness of the needs of this client group at primary care level through the sharing of clinical knowledge and expertise using a model of consultation/liaison/teaching and training/research and development with primary care colleagues. This will also include awareness of the 3 core functions of the Mental Health Support Teams - the provision of 1:1 evidenced based interventions, consultation/ advise and signposting role and delivery of the whole schools approaches with school settings in the trailblazer areas.

To participate in service improvement projects to ensure the needs of children and young people are at the forefront of delivery. This will include consideration of service evaluation data and joint working with other agencies and partners across the system. Collaborative working across the emotional and mental health pathway is essential and coordination of resources to ensure efficient and equitable provision.

Main duties of the job

To support the development and continued provision of current Mental Health Support Teams and the successful deployment of future teams across Northumberland. This will involve service development and improvement projects, as well as collaboration with our partners i.e. schools, colleges, early help teams, universal services, specialist services.

To provide clinical and case management supervision to clinicians within the service, ensuring high quality care and patient safety is paramount to service provision. To contribute clinically, by way of holding a caseload of young people to which support is being offered and to support with the wider role in relation to offering advice, guidance and consultation.

To support the service leads to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources.

To identify any gaps in service provision and to help develop services to meet the needs of this client group.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of collective leadership culture within the service and Trust.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?

Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Details

Date posted

16 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-7532600LH-HAS

Job locations

Blyth Health Centre

Thoroton Street

Blyth

NE24 1DX

Job description

Job responsibilities

To line manage and clinically supervise the clinicians in the PMHW and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools ensuring quality and patient safety is paramount to service provision.

Support the service lead in the successful deployment of future MHST roll-outs ensuring the fidelity of the model

To work with the service lead to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources available.

To hold a clinical case load providing direct care to the client group.

To identify any gaps in service provision and to help to develop services to meet the needs of this client group.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To line manage and clinically supervise the clinicians in the PMHW and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools ensuring quality and patient safety is paramount to service provision.

Support the service lead in the successful deployment of future MHST roll-outs ensuring the fidelity of the model

To work with the service lead to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources available.

To hold a clinical case load providing direct care to the client group.

To identify any gaps in service provision and to help to develop services to meet the needs of this client group.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent level of relevant experience.
• Requirement for post holder to hold a core professional qualification and professional registration/ i.e. 1st level nurse, doctorate in clinical psychology, qualified social worker, counselling, Occupational therapy
• Professional registration with a professional body eg NMC, HCPC, BABCP,Social Work England .
• Post registration training in Child & Adolescent Mental Health
• Registered mentor if a registered Nurse or a willingness to complete this training, experience of delivery clinical supervision / CBT supervision or a qualification in supervision
• A recognised teaching and training qualification or experience of delivering teaching.

Desirable

• Additional post registration qualification in a specific therapeutic modality including aBABCP accredited CBT therapist / or other Psychological interventions including EMDR, CBT,Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
• CYIAPT qualifications / modalities

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Significant experience of working within child and adolescent mental health services or experience working with children and young people with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
• Experience of Service Development and delivery including multi agency operational systems, referral protocols and assessment processing
• Experience of participating in and delivering clinical supervision
• Experience of working with children and adolescents in a variety of settings
• Evidence of practice development

Desirable

• Experience of, or training in, psychological therapies
• Experience of delivering CBT- informed supervision or upervising CYPMHS clinicians and trainees

Other Requirements

Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent level of relevant experience.
• Requirement for post holder to hold a core professional qualification and professional registration/ i.e. 1st level nurse, doctorate in clinical psychology, qualified social worker, counselling, Occupational therapy
• Professional registration with a professional body eg NMC, HCPC, BABCP,Social Work England .
• Post registration training in Child & Adolescent Mental Health
• Registered mentor if a registered Nurse or a willingness to complete this training, experience of delivery clinical supervision / CBT supervision or a qualification in supervision
• A recognised teaching and training qualification or experience of delivering teaching.

Desirable

• Additional post registration qualification in a specific therapeutic modality including aBABCP accredited CBT therapist / or other Psychological interventions including EMDR, CBT,Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
• CYIAPT qualifications / modalities

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Significant experience of working within child and adolescent mental health services or experience working with children and young people with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
• Experience of Service Development and delivery including multi agency operational systems, referral protocols and assessment processing
• Experience of participating in and delivering clinical supervision
• Experience of working with children and adolescents in a variety of settings
• Evidence of practice development

Desirable

• Experience of, or training in, psychological therapies
• Experience of delivering CBT- informed supervision or upervising CYPMHS clinicians and trainees

Other Requirements

Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Blyth Health Centre

Thoroton Street

Blyth

NE24 1DX

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Blyth Health Centre

Thoroton Street

Blyth

NE24 1DX

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)